Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.

Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.