The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

The highest end of government is the culture of men.

There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.

The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.

We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.