Labor is life; thought is light.

No religion but blasphemes a little.

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

God made only water, but man made wine.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.