Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.

In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much under-estimated.

Music and Wine are one.

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.