Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.

Children are all foreigners.

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.