If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself |
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. |
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. |
In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; / In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. |
In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration |
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. |
It is an ancient mariner, / And he stoppeth one of three. |
It is that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith. |
It sounds like stories from the land of spirits - If any may obtain that which he merits - or any merit that which he obtains |
It was a miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice! |
Its body brevity, and wit its soul. |
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests |
Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it |
Life is but thought; so think I will, That youth and I are house mates still |
Life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain |