A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
There is something magnificent in having a country to love.
To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends.
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.