Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain.

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

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.