Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.

Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.

And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark.

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

We by art unteach what Nature taught.