The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

Temptation hath a music for all ears.

Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

The taste forever refines in the study of women.