God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

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

He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.

To genius life never grows commonplace.

History is clarified experience.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.