Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive transition from one step to another in any course. If in the right course, it will be the true method; if in the wrong, we cannot hope to progress.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

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

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.