"To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."

"Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so…"

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

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

"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."