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

History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

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

The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.

Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.

The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;- on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.