The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge college is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.