“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”

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

“Logic is the anatomy of thought”

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

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

“The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done”