Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.
How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!