“I think she is too immature at present to wrestle with its difficulties.”

Arguing that some forms require maturity as well as enthusiasm · Letter concerning a young poet, November 12, 1871

• Difficulty
• Poetry
• Youth

“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.”

Suggesting that an overburdened intellect can mistake its own relentless logic for reason · The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

• Difficulty
• Mind
• Psychology