I'm religiously opposed to religion.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Rhyme that enslaved queen that supreme charm of our poetry that creator of...
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it...
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
As a means of contrast with the sublime the grotesque is in our view the...
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond and...
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be...
He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows that...
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war...
The mountains the forest and the sea render men savage they develop the...
I love all men who think even those who think otherwise than myself.
Adversity makes men and prosperity makes monsters.
Love is a portion of the soul itself and it is of the same nature as the...
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood until the time comes for them to depart this life again like children neither tired of living nor aware of death.