There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

A thought must tell at once, or not at all.

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.

A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.