Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.

If 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.

Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.

Out 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.

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach; the function of the second is -- to move.