Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.

It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.