“The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part.”

“I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.”

“Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.”

“A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.”

“To struggle when hope is banished. To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure and go calmly on!”

“O for an engine to keep back all clocks!”

“Naught but leaves brushed in the wind, stemming from the forest behind my house. Oh, and of course, the wildlife seized every chance to tell the stars who they were; they hooted, howled, and growle...”

“I dont have a philosophy: I have senses...If I talk about Nature, its not because I know what it is,But because I love it, and thats why I love it,Because when you love you never know what you love...”

“I have been wrongly accused; and you, ma'am, and everybody else, will now think me wicked.""We shall think you what you prove yourself to be, my child. Continue to act as a good girl, and you will ...”