Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.