All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.