No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.

No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.

The public is a bad guesser.

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

The burden of the incommunicable.

For tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual.

The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.