Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!

Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.