It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!