The only training for the heroic is the mundane.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires