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

Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

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

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