For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.

The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well