Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all the requisitions of art.

Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

To the innocent there are neither cherubim nor angels.