Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

And in today already walks tomorrow.

The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.

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

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.