It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in a…

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.