Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.