“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”
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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.
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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.
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.