A temperate style is alone classical.
All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.
Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Fear loves the idea of danger.
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.