Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

The earth has music for those who listen.

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.