Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.

Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice.

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.