1. “The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.”
2. “The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.”
3. “Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”
4. “Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.”
5. “History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.”
6. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
7. “Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
8. “Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.”
9. “Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”
10. “Reason respects the differences and imagination the similitudes of things.”
11. “All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth”
12. “There is no real wealth but the labor of man.”
13. “Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.”
14. “The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”
15. “A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its solitude with sweet sounds.”
