The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.

I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.