A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
See deep enough, and you see musically.
'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.