Thou Hast The Keys Of Paradise, Oh,

Thou Hast The Keys Of Paradise, Oh, Just, Subtle, And Mighty Opium!

The Pulpit Style Of Germany Has Been Always Rustically Negligent, Or Bristling With Pedantry.

It Was A Sunday Afternoon, Wet And Cheerless; And A Duller Spectacle This Earth Of Ours Has Not To Show Than A Rainy Sunday In London.

All That Is Literature Seeks To Communicate Power

There Is First The Literature Of Knowledge, And Secondly, The Literature Of Power. The Function Of The First Is--to Teach; The Function Of The Second Is--to Move, The First Is A Rudder, The Second An Oar Or A Sail. The First Speaks To The Mere Discursive Understanding; The Second Speaks Ultimately, It May Happen, To The Higher Understanding Or Reason, But Always Through Affections Of Pleasure And Sympathy.