Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

Our earthly ball a peopled garden.

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.