The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

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

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.

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

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.

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.