I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

If I venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... I have done a deed which shakes the Moon in her path, which causes the Sun to be no longer the Sun, and which alters forever the destiny of multitudinous myriads of stars.

Once upon a midnight dreary

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.