No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.

There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.

The breath of the mind is attention.

Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

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 paper is patient, but the reader is not.