To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

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

No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.