All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

Deep truth is imageless.

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of its authority either from the circumstance of its novelty or its antiquity, that it should be judged excellent, not because it is reasonable or true, but because no person has ever thought of it before, or because it has been thought of from the beginning of time.

The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.