Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.
... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.