A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

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