Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.

The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.