Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to seserve that you should.

The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.

Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

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

To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.