In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.

A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.

I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself

Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

The names of all fine authors are fictitious ones, far more so than that of Junius,--simply standing, as they do, for the mystical, ever-eluding Spirit of all Beauty, which ubiquitously possesses men of genius.

Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.