The Character Of The Crowds Is Made

How Great Seems Human Progress When We Consider Where It Began, And How Insignificant, When We Contemplate The Goals For Which Itstrives.

Why Must Ancients, And Provided The Same Talent, Be Better Than Modern Authors? Free To Exploit The Vast Realm Of The Simpleand The Natural, They Did Not Have To Be Artificial In Order To Be Original (which Every Artist Aspires To Be).

Our Poetry Emulates The Recent Progress In Military Strategy: Our Army's Strength Is The Foot Soldiers.

The Courts Used To Be, Fair And Square, The Avengers Of Secular Crimes; But Nowadays They Demand Respect Even For The Criminal.

Genius Differs From Talent Not By The Amount Of Original Thoughts, But By Making The Latter Fertile And By Positioning Them Properly, In Other Words, By Integrating Everything Into A Whole, Whereas Talent Produces Only Fragments, No Matter How Beautiful.