The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of.