All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.