Life is to short to be small.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
Genius, when young, is divine.
Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.