I've done a bit of smuggling, I've run my share of grass. I made enough money to buy Miami, but I piss it away so fast.
Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.
Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry
Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.
Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.
My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind.
I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.