The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mindabout nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing at random straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness without knowing the bearing of any one assertion, of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin?

When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance...

Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom!

I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.

I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.

Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they? Think not of them; thou has thy music too.

He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.