Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.

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

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.

When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

We are our own aptest deceiver.