If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

We're only really thinking when we can't think out fully what we are really thinking about!

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

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.