Everything good is on the highway.
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.
Only poetry inspires poetry.
The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.
Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the first stair you ascent, that this is the road to the stars.