When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

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.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.