Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Wherever there is power there is age.

No sensible person ever made an apology.

If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.