The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.