"Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard."

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary."

"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ''the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.'' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ''Artist.''"

"The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true."

"The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee."

"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."

"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."

"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty."

"In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed."

"I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."

"Stupidity is a talent for misconception."

"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."

"Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last."

"That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward."

"In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me."

"Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance."

"The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire"

"To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair."

"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man."

"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."

"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat."

"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."

"We loved with a love that was more than love."

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."

"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream."

"The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true"

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

"Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so."

"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.