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

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.

As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

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.

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.