No society can ever be so large as one man.
There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.
If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.
It is never too late to do right.
A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.