The proud will sooner lose than ask their way.
No tribute is laid on castles in the air.
When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.
Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.
To copy faults is want of sense.
The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.