Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.
Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.