My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.

The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty itself.

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.

The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives adivine life. By the healthful and invigorating thrills of inspiration his life is preserved to a serene old age.

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.