Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

One source of the sublime is infinity.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.