The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.