This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.