A stately pleasure-dome decree.

It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.