Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life!

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.