Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.