Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
Bless thy simplicity, Tess
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.