It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.
Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.
The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth.
Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.