“Summer has set in with its usual severity.”

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.

The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.

My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.

Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

I’m set up where I make a lot of money doing stand-up, and it’s easy.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.