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

The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages

The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.

The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

A good indignation makes an excellent speech.