Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

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.

Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.