Bad analogies make no end of mischief, none more than mind and body.
Domestic sentiment is impossible to portray effectively in art, because it is universal, deeply felt, and always the same.
How little are we ourselves, and how strenuously do we play at it!
To be great is to be more than the sum of one’s parts; the usual case is to be less.
Almost everything will seem to work on the right subjects, and almost nothing will on the wrong ones.
Genuine truth-seekers make unfashionable errors.
There is no gait that a dog breed does not exemplify. Setters stalk, dachshunds scurry, Labradors amble, German shepherds skulk, terriers march.
It is as misdirected to love or admire science, in the large, as poetry. One must ask after not poetry but poems, and not science but experiments.
One way to mark an important event is if the people who constantly opine in public suddenly have nothing to say.
I’m no misanthrope. Some of my best friends are people.