Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

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.

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.

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.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power