Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.