When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee.

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.