Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.