The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

The populace drags down the gods to their own level.