There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

The borrower runs in his own debt.

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.