I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.

All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.