The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Who loses a day loses life.