I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once.

Love does not analyze its object.

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.

The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.