Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will -the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.

Time,--the most independent of all things.

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.