The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.