Wisdom is only found in truth.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.