The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.