Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.

A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.

How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.

Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.