The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.
Thomas de QuinceyIf once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Thomas de QuinceyEnough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.
Thomas de QuinceyOut of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.
Thomas de Quincey