Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.
Every advantage has its tax.
Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.
It is the eye which makes the horizon.
I like sayers of no better than I like sayers of yes.
Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.