Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

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

Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.