O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; - nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.

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

Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain.

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