But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.