Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective.

Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.