The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.

As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.

Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.

Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.

The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation

A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts.