So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

A great mind must be androgynous.

Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.

I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

All powerful souls have kindred with each other

We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.