That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.