Free as a bird to settle where I will.

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 silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.

And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things.