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

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

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

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.