Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.
Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.
It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.