People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.
Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.
Ignorance never settles a question.