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

He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

Mystery is truth's dancing partner.

The history of mankind is his character.

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

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.