Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason. . . affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
Every common miracle which the child sees with his own eyes makes of him for the moment another Newton.
It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.