Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

Every reform was once a private opinion.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.

The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.