He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

Man's restlessness makes him strive.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

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

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days