Taste is the next gift to genius.

O reputation! dearer far than life.

For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.

Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.