Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.