Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it