There is a society in the deepest solitude.
A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.
Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.