Colleges Hate Geniuses, Just As Convents Hate

We May Like Well To Know What Is Plato’s And What Is Montesquieu’s Or Goethe’s Part, And What Thought Was Always Dear To The Writer Himself; But The Worth Of The Sentences Consists In Their Radiancy And Equal Aptitude To All Intelligence. They Fit All Our Facts Like A Charm. We Respect Ourselves The More That We Know Them.

They Have Seen But Half The Universe Who Never Have Been Shown The House Of Pain.

Surely Nobody Would Be A Charlatan, Who Could Afford To Be Sincere.

The Piety Of The Hebrew Prophets Purges Their Grossness. The Circumcision Is An Example Of The Power Of Poetry To Raise The Low And Offensive.

When There Is No Vision, People Perish.