Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.
Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.
For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.
If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.