Life is our dictionary.
He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
Souls are not saved in bundles.
A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.
Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.