I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

Books are for nothing but to inspire

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

Nature is saturated with Deity.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.