My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.

Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.