Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
The more a man writes, the more he can write.
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.