Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the individual, centred in his heart, is, or may be, collateral to them. Faith is subjective.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.

Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!