Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.
In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.
Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.