Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!
Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.
Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.
In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful
Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.
Genius has no taste for weaving sand.