Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

No animal admires another animal.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

Let man then contemplate nature in full and lofty majesty, and turn his eyes away from the mean objects which surround him. Let him look at the dazzling light hung aloft as an eternal lamp to lighten the universe; let him behold the earth, a mere dot compared with the vast circuit which that orb describes, and stand amazed to find that the vast circuit itself is but a very fine point compared with the orbit traced by the starts as they roll their course on high.

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.