This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the cragsOf ancient mountains, and beneath the clouds,Which image in their bulk both lakes and shoresAnd mountain crags: so shall thou see and hearThe lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy GodUtters, who from eternity doth teachHimself in all, and al things in himselfGreat universal teacher! He shall moldThy spirit and by giving , make it ask.

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

That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.