Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honour, false glory, and false religion?

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of th…

The poet:who is the legislator of generations and the moral instructor of the world.

Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still.

I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives - philosophical, religi…