Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.

My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.