Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.