Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.

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.

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

Even in the grave, all is not lost.

There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which springs from matter and light, envinced in solid and shade.