No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their...
With me poetry has not been a purpose but a passion.
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
It is the nature of truth in general as of some ores in particular to be...
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against...
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Man's real life is happy chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon...
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the...
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this at any time it can be quietly...
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who...
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself...
It is by no means an irrational fancy that in a future existence we shall...
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute...
All religion my friend is simply evolved out of fraud fear greed...
I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will...
Experience has shown and a true philosophy will always show that a vast...
The ninety and nine are with dreams content but the hope of the world made...
Deep into that darkness peering long I stood there wondering fearing...
The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in...
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague....
I would define in brief the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of...
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Beauty of whatever kind in its supreme development invariably excites the...
