Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.
Facts are not truths they are not conclusions they are not even premisses but in the nature and parts of premisses.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose - words in their best order poetry - the best words in their best order.
No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.
Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.
A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,Which finds no natural outlet or relief,In word, or sigh, or tear.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Language is the armoury of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order - poetry = the best words in the best order.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile a kind look a heartfelt compliment and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and...
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illumine only the track it has passed.
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.