Skill to do comes of doing.

The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessedno other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?

Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

God has delegated himself to a million deputies.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.