Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.
Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.
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.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Life is our dictionary.
There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.