John Mason Good

Taste is that faculty which selects and relishes such combinations of ideas as produce genuine beauty, and rejects the contrary.

Now, happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature: it is a running stream and not a stagnant pool.

The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth …

Not worlds on worlds in phalanx deep, Need we to prove a God is here; The Daisy, fresh from Winter's sleep, Tells of his hand in lines as clear.