Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

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.

Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.