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

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

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

Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.