When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.

Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.

Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.

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

The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.