Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.

Be a gift and a benediction.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.