The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
My greatness does not extend to this shelf.
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
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