The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.