Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

Conscience is the pulse of reason

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.