Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the political status of an individual. It raises a rival royalty in a monarchy. 'Tis king against king. It is ever a romance of history in all dynasties--the co-presence of the revolutionary force in intellect. It creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down, and to which he must often succumb.

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

Genius Borrows nobly.

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.