Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.

In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.