Only the man who says no is free

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.

It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.

I am past scorching; not easily can’st thou scorch a scar.

Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

Love's secrets, being mysteries, ever pertain to the transcendent and the infinite; and so they are as airy bridges, by which ourfurther shadows pass over into the regions of the golden mists and exhalations; whence all poetical, lovely thoughts are engendered, and drop into us, as though pearls should drop from rainbows.