Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

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

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.