The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

Her skin was white as leprosy.

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

The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.

The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.