The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.

O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.

We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.

You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.

The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it.

Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.