I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned.

The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.