The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.

When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a house-hold God, as well as a heavenly one; He has an altar in every man's dwelling.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.

Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.