Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

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

We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge.

The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.