Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.