As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast. Its fit hour oactivity is night; its actions are insane, like its whole constitution.

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.