There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

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.

Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

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

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.