Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.
A rogue is a roundabout fool.
The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.
If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.
A Gothic church is a petrified religion.
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition.
To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.
He prayeth best who loveth best.
As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.
I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.
Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.
The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.
The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.
Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still – So perform both my master’s and mistress’s will.
That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.
When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.
The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.