Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

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

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.