Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.

We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.

For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.