Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

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

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.