The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.

No one suspects the days to be gods.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.

Wherever there is power there is age.