Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend
All promise outruns performance.
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.
It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun [Texas], and Mexico and Oregon also, and it will in the course of ages be of small import by what particular occasions and methods it was done.
The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.