To See Him Act Is Like Reading

Creation Rather Than Painting, Or If Painting, Yet Such, And With Such Co-presence Of The Whole Picture Flash'd At Once Upon The Eye, As The Sun Paints In A Camera Obscura. (describing His Poetic Ideal, 1817)

Some Persons Have Contended That Mathematics Ought To Be Taught By Making The Illustrations Obvious To The Senses. Nothing Can Be More Absurd Or Injurious: It Ought To Be Our Never-ceasing Effort To Make People Think, Not Feel.

Nor Dim Nor Red, Like God's Own Head, The Glorious Sun Uprist

This Is The Course Of Every Evil Deed, That, Propagating Still It Brings Forth Evil.

There Is Nothing Insignificant-nothing.