Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.
Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius; and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.