Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.

The true ship is the ship builder.

The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.