I Think That I Am Better Than

Few Are Open To Conviction, But The Majority Of Men Are Open To Persuasion

Nature! We Are Enveloped And Embraced By Her, Incapable Of Emerging From Her And Incapable Of Entering Her More Deeply. Unbidden And Unwarned, She Receives Us Into The Circuits Of Her Dance, Drifting Onward With Us Herself, Until We Grow Tired And Drop From Her Arms.

When An Idea Is Wanting, A Word Can Always Be Found To Take Its Place.

None Are More Hopelessly Enslaved Than Those Who Falsely Believe They Are Free.

Taste Is Only To Be Educated By Contemplation, Not Of The Tolerably Good But Of The Truly Excellent. I Therefore Show You Only The Best Works; And When You Are Grounded In These, You Will Have A Standard For The Rest, Which You Will Know How To Value, Without Overrating Them.