Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Genius has no brother.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.

Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.