A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?

As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.