“The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have”

“A wise man seeks wisdom; a madman thinks that he has found it.”

“Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind”

“As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical”

“To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eye”

“Some people read because they are too lazy to think”