“And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.”

“Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never”

“The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back”

“The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them”

“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing , to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select party”

“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject”