Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.
Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
A poet is a painter of the soul.
An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.
The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.