The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

I like sayers of no better than I like sayers of yes.

I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much under-estimated.