There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

Invention breeds invention.

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.