Action has magic, grace and power in it.

Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.

Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.

Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do it with safety.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.