Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.

Style is the essence of man

I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and other spoils of the ocean.

Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.

There is nothing good in love but the physical part.

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.