Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

Wisdom is infused into every form.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.