An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the m...
In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]
Languages are not strangers to on another.
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
The life of truth is cold.
chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Of that time, there is still much we do not know.
Eating is an agricultural act.
Loyalty in a critic is corruption.
The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual
Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.
What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual.
Your silence will not protect you.
Revolution is not a one time event.
I desired dragons with a profound desire.
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
Order is heaven's first law.
