It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.

There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in the particular. From the former procedure there ensues allegory, in which the particular serves only as illustration, as example of the general. The latter procedure, however, is genuinely the nature of poetry; it expresses something particular, without thinking of the general or pointing to it.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.