Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.

It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

One mind is enough for a thousand hands.

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny