Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times past become time present, and the whole pageantry of the world's history moves in solemn procession before our eyes, -these were to visit the firesides of the humble and lavish the treasures of the intellect upon the poor.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

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

Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.

Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of the heart, and all milk on the other, the unsexed scandal-monger hies from house to house, pouring balm from its weeping eyes on the wounds it inflicts with its stabbing tongue.