Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it

Journalism is literature in a hurry

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims

f experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and description of men in society to be able to say for itself what it wants, and not to have other classes, the so-called educated and intelligent classes, acting for it as its proctors, and supposed to understand its wants and to provide for them. A class of men may often itself not either fully understand its wants, or adequately express them; but it has a nearer interest and a more sure diligence in the matter than any of its proctors, and therefore a better chance of success

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next