Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Our own heart, 

and not other men's opinions 

form our true honour.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

No man was ever yet 

a great poet, 

without being 

at the same time 

a profound philosopher.

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. 

Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. 

The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; 

the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.