Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.

History after all is the true poetry.

Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.