The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.