A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.
Ideas are forces; our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.
Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use these terms to indicate two central powers, from which all motives radiate, to which all influences converge.
The only cure for grief is action.
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.