The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.
There is no wisdom like frankness.
Life is to short to be small.
Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.
I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.