If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

The universal subjugator, the commonplace.

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.