Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.

Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.

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.

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.