The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.

May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!