How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do it with safety.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

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

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.