One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

A great mind must be androgynous.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.