Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.
Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Misfortunes should always be expected.