An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

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