Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

A great mind must be androgynous.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.