“How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.”
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
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.