Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.