Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

The history of a man is in his character.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

On every mountain height is rest.