Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.