The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.