All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.