Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.

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

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.

It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.