As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

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.

All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is ascertained to be actually & verily science. The Ptolemaic Astronomy was barely able to prognosticate a lunar eclipse; with Kepler and Newton came Science and Prophecy.

Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.

Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.