If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.

I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams, Lover of loneliness, and wandering, Of upcast eye, and tender pondering! Thee must I praise above all other glories That smile us on to tell delightful stories.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.