An Honest Man Is Respected

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.

Art Must Anchor In Nature, Or It Is The Sport Of Every Breath Of Folly.

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.

You Know More Of A Road By Having Traveled It Than By All The Conjectures And Descriptions In The World.

Learning Is, In Too Many Cases, But A Foil To Common Sense; A Substitute For True Knowledge.