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.

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

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

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.