Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.