Genius is power, talent is applicability.

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.