Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.