The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of things; and whilst some languages, given a man's constitution and habits, may seem more beautiful and convenient to him than others, it is a foolish heat in a patriot to insist that only his native language is intelligible or right.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.