Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.
Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.
Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.
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.