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.

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.