The gifts of genius are far greater than the givers themselves venture to suppose.
In solitude all great things are born.
Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.
Heaven alone, not earth, is destined to witness the repose of faith.
Genuine and innocent wit is surely the very flavor of the mind.
The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its acquaintance with the things which it investigates.