What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.

The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.