There is a society in the deepest solitude.
Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.
Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.
Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.