My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

Falsehood is fire in stubble; it likewise turns all the light stuff around it into its own substance for a moment, one crackling blazing moment, and then dies; and all its converts are scattered in the wind, without place or evidence of their existence, as viewless as the wind which scatters them.