To The Vulgar Eye, Few Things Are

'genius' Which Means Transcendent Capacity Of Taking Trouble, First Of All.

A Very Sea Of Thought; Neither Calm Nor Clear, If You Will, Yet Wherein The Toughest Pearl-diver May Dive To His Utmost Depth, And Return Not Only With Sea-wreck But With True Orients.

In Every Man's Writings, The Character Of The Writer Must Lie Recorded.

Rich As We Are In Biography, A Well-written Life Is Almost As Rare As A Well-spent One; And There Are Certainly Many More Men Whose History Deserves To Be Recorded Than Persons Willing And Able To Record It.

Of All Your Troubles, Great And Small, The Greatest Are The Ones That Don't Happen At All.