Gratitude is heaven itself; there could be no heaven without gratitude.

'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.'

To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.

Mere enthusiasm is the all in all.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.