Poetry: the best words in the best order.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into the world) which did not expand the intellect, while it purified the heart--which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and passions.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

Summer has set in with its usual severity.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.