The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.

The more you do, the more you can do.

General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.