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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.