Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries; and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.

When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?

In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.