Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.