While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

The life of the soul is incalculable.

Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.