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The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.Best?
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Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.Best?
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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.Best?
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.Best?
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.Best?
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No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.Best?
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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Best?
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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.Best?
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Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.Best?
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.Best?
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There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starveBest?
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Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.Best?
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If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.Best?
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.Best?
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Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,Best?
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