Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?