My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

Power educates the potentate.

I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

We walk alone in the world.

At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage.

As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.