Our Opinion Of Others Is Not So

There Is Nothing That Fear And Hope Does Not Permit Men To Do.

Our Errors And Our Controversies, In The Sphere Of Morality, Arise Sometimes From Looking On Men As Though They Could Be Altogether Bad, Or Altogether Good.

Consciousness Of Our Powers Augments Them.

All Grand Thoughts Come From The Heart.

As Soon As An Opinion Becomes Common It Is Sufficient Reason For Men To Abandon It And To Uphold The Opposite Opinion Until That In Its Turn Grows Old, And They Require To Distinguish Themselves By Other Things. Thus If They Attain Their Goal In Some Art Or Science, We Must Expect Them Soon To Cast It Aside To Acquire Some Fresh Fame, And This Is Partly The Reason Why The Most Splendid Ages Degenerate So Quickly, And, Scarcely Emerged From Barbarism, Plunge Into It Again.