The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Good and bad men are less than they seem.
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale – my dreams become the substances of my life.
Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation.
Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.
On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.
The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.
Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren rock – the priceless gems and gold – is to the human mind an impenetrable mystery, in all cases alike.
Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother’s chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.
Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.
Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.