A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors
Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.
Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.