Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.

Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.