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

Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice, and, when nothing better can be had, can turn the very substance of rock itself into moss and lichens. This faculty is uncomparingly the most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.