Solitude Is Impractical And Yet Society Is

The Student Is To Read History Actively And Not Passively; To Esteem His Own Life The Text, And Books The Commentary. Thus Compelled, The Muse Of History Will Utter Oracles As Never To Those Who Do Not Respect Themselves.

Experience Is The Only Teacher, And We Get His Lesson Indifferently In Any School.

Nothing Is Great But The Inexhaustible Wealth Of Nature.

The Poet Needs A Ground In Popular Tradition On Which He May Work, And Which, Again, May Restrain His Art Within The Due Temperance. It Holds Him To The People, Supplies A Foundation For His Edifice; And, In Furnishing So Much Work Done To His Hand, Leaves Him At Leisure, And In Full Strength For The Audacities Of His Imagination.

Belief Consists In Accepting The Affirmations Of The Soul; Unbelief In Denying Them.