"Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They..." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.