The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.
Age merely shows what children we remain.
The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.
To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.