A Poet's Soul Must Contain The Perfect

Given Pounds And Five Years, And An Ordinary Man Can In The Ordinary Course, Without Any Undue Haste Or Putting Any Pressure Upon His Taste, Surround Himself With Books, All In His Own Language, And Thence Forward Have At Least One Place In The World.

There Were No Books In Eden, And There Will Be None In Heaven

Good As It Is To Inherit A Library, It Is Better To Collect One.

Few Men Can Afford To Be Angry.

I Am Far Too Much In Doubt About The Present, Far Too Perturbed .about The Future, To Be Otherwise Than Profoundly Reverential About The Past.