I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.

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

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

It is a luxury to be understood.

I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.

I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.