Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.
A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.