I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.

The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care of the damned and despised litterati...when their very medium, the very essence of their work, the application of word to thing goes rotten, i.e. becomes slushy and inexact, or excessive or bloated, the whole machinery of social and of individual thought and order goes to pot.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.