The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.