Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.

Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.