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

There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love.

Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

One mind is enough for a thousand hands.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.