Our Desires, Once Realized, Haunt

Genius Will Live And Thrive Without Training, But It Does Not The Less Reward The Watering Pot And The Pruning Knife.

The Critic ... Should Be Not Merely A Poet, Not Merely A Philosopher, Not Merely An Observer, But Tempered Of All Three.

There Is Some Danger Lest There Be No Real Religion In The Heart Which Craves Too Much Daily Sympathy.

Man Can Never Come Up To His Ideal Standard. It Is The Nature Of The Immortal Spirit To Raise That Standard Higher And Higher As It Goes From Strength To Strength, Still Upward And Onward. The Wisest And Greatest Men Are Ever The Most Modest.

I Now Know All The People Worth Knowing In America, And I Find No Intellect Comparable To My Own.