It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.