If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.

There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.

Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.