He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.
Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.
Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.