Silence does not always mark wisdom.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.