A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.