What Makes Our Poetry So Contemptible Nowadays

We Have To Believe That Everything Has A Cause, As The Spider Spins Its Web In Order To Catch Flies. But It Does This Before It Knows There Are Such Things As Flies.

I Look Upon Book Reviews As An Infantile Disease Which New-born Books Are Subject To.

There Exists A Species Of Transcendental Ventriloquism By Means Of Which Men Can Be Made To Believe That Something Said On Earth Comes From Heaven.

Delight At Having Understood A Very Abstract And Obscure System Leads Most People To Believe In The Truth Of What It Demonstrates.

Perhaps In Time The So-called Dark Ages Will Be Thought Of As Including Our Own.