1. “If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.”
2. “The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”
3. “I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”
4. “Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the minds of men.”
5. “Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.”
6. “All writing is a form of prayer.”
7. “Nothing is finer or the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.”
8. “I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.”
9. “I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.”
10. “Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.”
11. “Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.”
12. “There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”
13. “Time, that aged nurse, Rocked me to patience.”
14. “Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings.”
15. “My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.”
16. “Land an sea, weakness and decline are separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.”
17. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
18. “Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.”
19. “That which is creative must create itself.”
20. “What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.”
21. “The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
22. “Health is my expected heaven.”
23. “A man’s life of any worth is a continual allegory.”
24. “Love is my religion – I could die for it.”
25. “A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.”
26. “To stay youthful, stay useful.”
27. “Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.”
28. “Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.”
29. “Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.”
30. “Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”
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