There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be…

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities...

$The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities...$

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed...

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed...

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are...

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are...

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in...

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in...

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They...

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They...

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace;...

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace;...

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in...

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in...

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language religion government...

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language religion government...

No one does anything from a single motive.

No one does anything from a single motive.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten...

$The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten...$

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the...

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the...

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry;...

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry;...

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they...

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they...

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.