I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

New York is a sucked orange.

All science is transcendental or else passes away.

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.