It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.
The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.
Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.
Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.