He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, "the friend of God," Abraham was that man. We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.