Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.

All nature seems at work.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.