All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.