A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold

The world we live in is but thickened light.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Flowers are the earth laughing.