By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.

The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

The temple of silence and reconciliation.

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.