Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.

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.