A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.