The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.