The true poem is the poet's mind.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

The hero is he who is immovably centered.

I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.