Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.

Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.

A dominant religion is never ascetic.

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.