If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets.

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without.