"There is an Holiness about fine writing which I cannot endure to talk of when it is gone."
"Whenever I find myself growing vapid I rouse myself, change the scene, and imbrue myself in the surging world."
Adventure
"I have been trying all my life to like Objections but have given it up in despair."
"To be great, one must appear great."
Power
"I hope I am a little more of a Philosopher than I was."
Wisdom
"Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream?"
Faith
"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."
"The Imagination with me is a very sensitive, delicate, poetic Essence."
Creativity
"I long for the time of undisturbed Leisure."
Solitude
"I can at any time Phantasize upon any Subject."
Imagination
"Circumstance is like a Film of Cobweb crossing perpetually the path of the most resolute Traveller."
"I shall soon be laid in the quiet Grave, and all my pains forgotten."
"The human heart is a mysterious labyrinth of emotion and truth."
"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
Nature
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
Beauty
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections."
Faith
"Call the world if you please 'The vale of soul-making'."
Philosophy
"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence?"
Wisdom
"I have nothing to confess; I never cut anybody's throat."
Humor
"Bright Star, would I were steadfast as thou art."
Love
"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing."
Education
"There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music."
Change
"I wish I could say Tom's voice is as pleasant as his countenance."
Humor
"Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses."
Knowledge
"Life must be undergone, and I certainly derive consolation from the thought of you."
Hope
"I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death."
"In a dream-nighted December, too happy, happy tree."
Dreams
"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."
Imagination
"I think I shall be among the English poets after my death."
Inspiration
"Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather."
Happiness