When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.

Taste is the next gift to genius.

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

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

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.