The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.

Don't judge a book by its cover