Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.

Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.