Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.