The mathematics of high achievement.
Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?
Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.
See deep enough, and you see musically.
I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.
The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.
Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?
We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.
It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.
Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.
The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.