Genius is its own end.
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
You can take better care of your secret than another can.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.