The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

All great men are partially inspired.

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.