“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mindabout nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.”

“one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another”

“Two souls with but a single thought,Two hearts that beat as one!”

“No one can usurp the heights...But those to whom the miseries of the worldAre misery, and will not let them rest.”

“My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.”

“O let me lead her gently o'er the brook,Watch her half-smiling lips and downward look;O let me for one moment touch her wrist;Let me one moment to her breathing list;And as she leaves me, may she often turnHer fair eyes looking through her locks auburne.”

“There is an old saying "well begun is half done" - 'tis a bad one. I would use instead, "Not begun at all till half done;" so according to that I have not begun my Poem and consequently (a priori) can say nothing about it.”