The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.
God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.