Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.

Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.

It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.