You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.