Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

Superstition is part of the poetry of life.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.