Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.