There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

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