Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with thespirit of the times. The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

All high beauty has a moral element in it.

The world belongs to the energetic.