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.

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.

I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.