Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
Why is youth so short and age so long?
There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.
Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.
No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.