The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

Necessity does everything well.

The true poem is the poet's mind.

...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.