Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.