The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.'

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty !