it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.

You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the scriptures, figurative.

--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

Health is my expected heaven.

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.