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

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.