The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

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

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

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Blood was its Avatar and its seal.

By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.