The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.

Good temper is an estate for life.

We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.