Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.

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.

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

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.