Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)

I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

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

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.