All that is literature seeks to communicate power

The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

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.

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is nothing finite...Upon a night of earthquake he builds a thousand years of pleasant habitations for man. Upon the sorrow of an infant he raises oftentimes from human intellects glorious vintages that could not else have been.