Health is the greatest of blessings - with health and hope we should be content to live.
Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow.
My chest of books divide amongst my friends.
No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures Than I began to think of rhymes and measures: The air that floated by me seem'd to say 'Write! thou wilt never have a better day.