Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.

We change whether we like it or not.

Accuracy is essential to beauty.

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.