War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.