Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Variety is the condition of harmony.