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.

Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul

Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank the tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.