“The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness”

“Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls”

“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”

“A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world”

“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”

“The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate”