Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.
Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.
Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins
How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.
Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.
Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.