Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the individual, centred in his heart, is, or may be, collateral to them. Faith is subjective.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.