Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.

He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Go not to the object; let the object come to you.

The gods cannot misunderstand, man cannot explain.