I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed.

I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.

No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of its authority either from the circumstance of its novelty or its antiquity, that it should be judged excellent, not because it is reasonable or true, but because no person has ever thought of it before, or because it has been thought of from the beginning of time.

He hath awakened from the dream of life.

All love is sweet, given or received.