“As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.”
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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.