Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!

Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.

The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.