And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

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.