Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.