Genius is intellect constructive.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

Wherever there is power there is age.

A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.

Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.