"I have no faith in anything but the power of God."

"To the poet himself we have only to say-from any farther specimens of your stupidity, good Lord deliver us!"

"I have... for the metaphysical poets [William Wordsworth, etc.], as poets, the most sovereign contempt. That they have followers proves nothing."

"I have been guilty of many follies, but I have never been guilty of a great crime."

"I have no faith in any system of government that does not protect the rights of the individual."