Beauty In Distress Is Much The Most

Poetry Is The Art Of Substantiating Shadows, And Of Lending Existence To Nothing.

Of This Stamp Is The Cant Of, Not Men, But Measures.

Those Who Have Been Intoxicated With Power... Can Never Willingly Abandon It.

The Only Kind Of Sublimity Which A Painter Or Sculptor Should Aim At Is To Express By Certain Proportions And Positions Of Limbs And Features That Strength And Dignity Of Mind, And Vigor And Activity Of Body, Which Enables Men To Conceive And Execute Great Actions.

Men Are Qualified For Civil Liberty In Exact Proportion To Their Disposition To Put Moral Chains Upon Their Own Appetites.