And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.