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

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

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

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.