Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine.

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.