Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

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

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.