The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

The reality is more excellent than the report.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life,in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality, and a purpose; and first, last, midst, and without end, to honor every truth by use.

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.