Taste Is The Literary Conscience Of The

I Love Prudence Very Little, If It Is Not Moral.

We Live In An Age In Which Superfluous Ideas Abound And Essential Ideas Are Lacking.

It Is Not My Words That I Polish, But My Ideas.

Fancy, An Animal Faculty, Is Very Different From Imagination, Which Is Intellectual. The Former Is Passive; But The Latter Is Active And Creative. Children, The Weak Minded, And The Timid Are Full Of Fancy. Men And Women Of Intellect, Of Great Intellect, Are Alone Possessed Of Great Imagination.

Old Age Was Naturally More Honored In Times When People Could Not Know Much More Than What They Had Seen.