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

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

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.