"The language of imagination is the native language of man. It is the language of his excited intellect, of his arouse…"

"The language of poetry is the only speech which has in it the power of permanent impression"

"Every poet is partly creator and partly the creature of circumstances."

"How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!"

"Perhaps the life of every thinking man may be divided into three eras — the era of admiration the era of action the e…"

"When the Christian religion reached Great Britain it brought necessarily with it an impulse to intellect as well as t…"

"Yes! I could find some comfort in the thought Of being scourged, Were there but hope that this defiling sin Which mar…"

"O to be like my Lord! Yet must I be Mine own self too, And to the nature He bestowed on me Be frankly true.The olive …"

"The devout and politically free inhabitant of New England is a kind of Laocoön who makes not the least effort to esca…"

"There is a sort of republican plainness and simplicity in their address, quite in harmony with the institutions of th…"