Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

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.

He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.

Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition.

The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.