In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.

Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.