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

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.