There Is Properly No History, Only Biography.

There Is Some Reason To Believe That When A Man Does Not Write His Poetry It Escapes By Other Vents Through Him, Instead Of The One Vent Of Writing; Clings To His Form And Manners, Whilst Poets Have Often Nothing Poetical About Them Except Their Verses.

Fashion, Though In A Strange Way, Represents All Manly Virtue. It Is Virtue Gone To Seed: It Is A Kind Of Posthumous Honor. It Does Not Often Caress The Great, But The Children Of The Great: It Is A Hall Of The Past.

The Task Ahead Of Us Is Never As Great As The Power Behind Us.

Every Man Is An Infinitely Repelling Orb, And Holds His Individual Being On That Condition.

Every Word Was Once A Poem.