"The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.”

“Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.”

“The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.”

“It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.”

“The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.”

“To a valet no man is a hero.”

“Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.”

“Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?”

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.”