I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?

Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.