“General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its …” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

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.