The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.

You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.