Poets are all who love,--who feel great truths, And tell them.

A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.