The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and all the countless Believers-even (strange to say) among Xtians-of Man's having progressed from an Ouran Outang state-so contrary to all History, to all Religion, nay, to all Possibility-to have affirmed a Fall in some sense.

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

Memory, bosom-spring of joy.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.