All high beauty has a moral element in it.

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world; I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeinga Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.

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

A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

When it is darkest, we can see the stars.