The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary.

I suspect there is something in our very mode of thought which makes it inevitable that we should always be baffled by actual existence, whatever character actual existence may have.

The literary man re-reads, other men simply read.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

I who know many present things by my art,' replied the Hermit with a smile, 'have yet little knowledge of things future. Therefore I do not know whether any man or woman or beast in the whole world will be alive when the sun sets tonight. But be of good hope. The damsel is likely to live as long as any her age.

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.