Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.

Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

See deep enough, and you see musically.

The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.