Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.