If the time should ever come when what is now called Science, thus famliarised to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to the aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.

There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

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

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.