Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

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.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.