Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.
For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel’s only.
To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.
Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!
And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
Nor dim nor red, like God’s own head, The glorious Sun uprist.
Mr. Mum’s Rudesheimer And the church of St. Geryon Are the two things alone That deserve to be known In the body-and-soul-stinking town of Cologne.
We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.
Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.
History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.
The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.
The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.
O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!
The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.
The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.
Conscience is the pulse of reason.
Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.