Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

Everytime we say that god is the author of some phenomenon, that signifies that we are ignorant of how such a phenomenon was caused by the forces of nature.

Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.

When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.

Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.

a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought