The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.

A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

All diseases run into one, old age.