"Publication – is the Auction Of the Mind of Man – Poverty – be justifying For so foul a thing"

"This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me – The simple News that Nature told – With tender Majesty"

"The Frost of Death was on the Pane – 'Twas not the Frost of Snow –"

"Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell."

"A Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend."