If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

The past is a pebble in my shoe.

How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!