The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

No one suspects the days to be gods.

The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

One must be an inventor to read well.