Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.