The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style.
Thomas de QuinceyNo man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.
Thomas de QuinceyFlowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God.
Thomas de QuinceyAs is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.
Thomas de QuinceyFlowers... that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God only by them - when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.
Thomas de Quincey