The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

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.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.