Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.

A rogue is a roundabout fool.

A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear.

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

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.