Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.