"Not the poem which we have read, but that to which we return, with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power…"

"Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming."

"Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate."

"Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it."

"Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind."

"An , in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol; and, except in geometry, all symbols of n…"

"Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating truth."

"I sought for a subject, that should give equal room and freedom for description, incident, and impassioned reflection…"

"“Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.”"

"The secondary I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with t…"