The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.

No education deserves the name unless it develops thought, unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into activity and growth.

A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.

Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.