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

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

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

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

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 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.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.