Genius Borrows nobly.

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Fear is a great instructor.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people.