Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.

The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.

I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these. "I never asked thy leave to let me love thee,--I have a right. I love thee not as something private and personal, which is your own, but as something universal and worthy of love, which I have found. O, how I think of you! You are purely good, --you are infinitely good. I can trust you forever. I did not think that humanity was so rich. Give me an opportunity to live.