Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
