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

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!