Most men remember obligations but are not often likely to be grateful the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius