Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.

The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

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

The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure in being displeased.