Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.