"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity."

"And the older a man gets, the more does he learn that he is not a man, but an ape."

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

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

"The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."