The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain.

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?