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

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.