He that never thinks can never be wise.

Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.

The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.