Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.

Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

That hour in the life of a man when first the help of humanity fails him, and he learns that in his obscurity and indigence humanity holds him a dog and no man: that hour is a hard one, but not the hardest. There is still another hour which follows, when he learns that in his infinite comparative minuteness and abjectness, the gods do likewise despise him, and own him not of their clan.

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.