What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.