Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

A great mind must be androgynous.

There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.

Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation