Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

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.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.