The essence of poetry is will and passion.

To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.

A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.

One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.