Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.

The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.

Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould.

The imagination never dies.

Do your heart and head keep pace? When does hoary Love expire, When do frosts put out the fire? Can its embers burn below All that chill December snow?

Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.