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| Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last. | | Uncategorized | |
| That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. | | Uncategorized | |
| That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. | | Uncategorized | |
| The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind. | | Uncategorized | |
| The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire | | Uncategorized | |
| The goodness of the true pun is in direct ratio to its intolerability | | Goodness | |
| The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess. | | Uncategorized | |
| The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true | | Dreams; Hope | |
| The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. | | Uncategorized | |
| the play was the tragedy "man" and it's hero the conqueror worm | | Uncategorized | |
| The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. | | Genius | |
| There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few. | | Popularity | |
| There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell | | Humanity; Reason | |
| There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm | | Enthusiasm | |
| There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man | | Fidelity; Friendship; Love; Men | |
| They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. | | Dreams | |
| Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. | | Dreams | |
