The temple of silence and reconciliation.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.

The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.