Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

What comes from the heart goes to the heart

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.