By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?
If you mean to profit, learn to praise.
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.
The best things carried to excess are wrong.