“Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.”
Nature“The incentive to ambition is the love of power.”
Power“Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.”
Nature“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”
Friendship“If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.”
Faith“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.”
Peace“A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.”
Imagination“The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.”
Friendship“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”
Travel“A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.”
Best“To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.”
Wisdom“There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.”
Friendship“It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”
Travel“Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.”
Alone“Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.”
Best“Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.”
Friendship“The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.”
Knowledge“Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.”
Education“There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.”
Truth“Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.”
Poetry“Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.”
Death“Zeal will do more than knowledge.”
Knowledge