The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.

The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.