We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil.

Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, science and skills depend upon it. Newton traced his discoveries to it. It builds bridges, opens new worlds, heals diseases, carries on the business of the world. Without it taste is useless, and the beauties of literature unobserved.

Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time.

Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.

To study history is to study literature.

Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp.

It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature; which recognizes a noble thought, as a virtuous mind welcomes a pure sentiment by a involuntary glow of satisfaction. But while the principle of perception is inherent in the soul, it requires a certain amount of knowledge to draw out and direct it.