We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.

Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.

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Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.

Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.