It is for truth that God created genius.
Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.
Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.