Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.