The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.

New arts destroy the old.

The eye of prudence may never shut.

Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.