What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
Imitation is criticism.
Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the next grand step and brings all these subjects together into one whole.