... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.

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.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.