It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.

Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.

The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.