Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

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

Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

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