In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Speech is great, but silence is greater.
A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.
'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.