It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.

The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.

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.

Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.