War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter.

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.