In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

A great mind must be androgynous.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.