Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.

What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.

A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.