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

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.