Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

The world globes itself in a drop of dew.

Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.

Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.

One must be an inventor to read well.