For everything you gain, you lose something.

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity

Never utter the truism but live it among men.

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.