"The common people are not to be trusted with any species of power, least of all with that which is the most dangerous, the power of making laws."

"Books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good."

"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!"

"What is a Poet? To whom does he address himself? And what object hath he proposed to himself?"

"I am a worshipper of the beautiful, and a lover of the good."