Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

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.

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

God will not make himself manifest to cowards

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.