Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary bark, amidst a sea of bright azure. The subject is certainly hackneyed; the moon has been sung by poet and poetaster. Is there any marvel that it should be so?

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.