We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare; and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.

When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.