"The common people are not to be trusted with any species of power, least of all with that which is the most dangerous, the power of making laws."

"By words the mind is winged."

"Every great poet is a teacher; I wish to be considered as a teacher, or as nothing."

"The human mind is capable of being excited without the application of gross and violent stimulants."

"The objects of the Poet are the things of common life."