A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

It is the eye which makes the horizon.

A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.