The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.
If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!
History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.
Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel.
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.
There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.