Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.

Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.