The best prophet of the future is the past.

There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky”.

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.

Brisk Confidence still best with woman copes: Pique her and soothe in turn-soon Passion crowns thy hopes.

The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.