The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.