Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams.

I love all waste and solitary places.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.

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