Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.
As the government is, such will be the man.
Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.