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

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly different and individually characteristic.

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.