Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

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.

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

A great mind must be androgynous.