No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary hammer-stroke in this life, but finding its true element only when it sails out into the ocean of eternity.

The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.

Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers to cover the ground.

Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!