A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

The best part of health is fine disposition

In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.