Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

We never touch but at points.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.