That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.

If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.

No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.