I find no intellect comparable to my own

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.