The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.

Lord help my poor soul.

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

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

When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart.

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.