Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.

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

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.