A power is passing from the earth.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, to me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

A power is passing from the earth.