| Quotes |
Topic |
| Literature | Literature is the thought of thinking Souls. |
| Literature | Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood. |
| Love | Love is not altogether a delerium, yet it has many points in common therewith. |
| Minority | Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. |
| Money | Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no value at all and even less. |
| Moths | What gained we, little moth? Thy ashes, Thy one brief parting pang may show, And withering thoughts for soul that dashes, From deep to deep, are but a death more slow. |
| Music | Music is well said to be the speech of angels. |
| Necessity | Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness, on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. |
| Numbers | A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures. |
| Opinions | Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. |
| Oratory | The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how, the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him. |
| Originality | The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man, whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another. |
| Originality | The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man, he believes for himself, not for another. |
| Painting | If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing Auctioneer. |
| Past | The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. |
| Philosophy | Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded. |
| Poetry | Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought. |
| Poetry | For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man, also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. |
| Poets | A Poet without Love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility. |
| Popularity | Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. |
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