[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a moment, by the explosion of a mass of matter in the womb, or centre of space. In one and the same instant of time, suns and planets shot into systems in every direction, and filled and spangled the illimitable void! He asserted this to be an intolerable degradation -referring, as it were, all the beauty and harmony of nature to something like the bursting of a barrel of gunpowder! that spit its combustible materials into a pock-freckled creation!

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

Summer has set in with its usual severity.