Genuine Simplicity Of Heart Is

When A Great Man Has Some One Object In View To Be Achieved In A Given Time, It May Be Absolutely Necessary For Him To Walk Out Of All The Common Roads.

Writers, Especially When They Act In A Body And With One Direction, Have Great Influence On The Public Mind.

Society Can Overlook Murder, Adultery Or Swindling; It Never Forgives Preaching Of A New Gospel.

I Despair Of Ever Receiving The Same Degree Of Pleasure From The Most Exalted Performances Of Genius Which I Felt In Childhood From Pieces Which My Present Judgment Regards As Trifling And Contemptible.

In Such A Strait The Wisest May Well Be Perplexed And The Boldest Staggered.