The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.

When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.

The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.