Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.