Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.
Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.
One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.
Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.
Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.