Самое великое из всех благ, — по крайней мере то, без которого нельзя пользоваться другими, — это независимость.
It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.
Самое важное свойство для физического здоровья представляет бодрость духа. Упадок духа сродни смерти.
He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
Mind modifies body involuntarily.
Невидимое есть единственная реальность.
Above all, the poet, whose judgment should be clear, whose feelings should be uniform and sound, whose sense should be alive to every impression and hardened to none, who is the legislator of generations and the moral instructor of the world, ought never to have been a practising lawyer, or ought speedily to have quitted so dangerous an engagement.
