Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.

When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.

It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.