I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation.

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

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.