Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will instantly prove it false by setting aside its requisitions. It is indeed all that we do not know.

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.