When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cherished designs will bear testimony to the fact that much which he meant to convey has never been guessed at in any review of his work; and many a delicate beauty of thought, on which he principally valued himself, remains, like the statue of Isis, an image of truth from which no hand lifts the veil.

The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

It is often the easiest move that completes the game.