The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

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.

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.