“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”

“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.”

“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.”

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”