Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.

Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin

Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells.

To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair

Yes," I said, "for the love of God!

It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.