Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the catalogue.
Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.
Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.