No man does anything from a single motive.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.