A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

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.

What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.