Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny but to rouse them from lethargy and to aid them to judge for themselves.
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to...
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off...
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
