"The love of novels is the preference..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.”

“We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.”

“One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.”

“Literature is my Utopia”

“Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land;Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.”

“Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.”

“When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.”

“My sorrow is my castle.”

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”