The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.

Be not the slave of your own past.

We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved; time, which keeps her from him, is his chest; the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament

I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.