He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.

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.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

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.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.