Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.