Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.
The instinct of the people is right.
For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul.
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.
Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.