Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.

Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.

It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has placed them in, and that the most abstract form of democratic theory would be practicable among sages guided only by their reason. The only problem is to what degree it is possible to excite or to contain the passions without endangering public happiness.

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.