The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.

To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.