Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.