The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.
The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.
Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.
Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.