We cannot learn men from books.
There is no education like adversity.
I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.
No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.