And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.

The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think women generally better creatures than men. They have weaker appetites and weaker intellects but much stronger affections. A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a strong head; but a corrupt woman is lost forever.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.