The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.