Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.

Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego

Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.

Feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers against the sun.

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.

Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as the temples self, so does the moon, the passion posey, glories infinite, Haunt us till they become a cheering light unto our souls and bound to us so fast, that wheather there be shine, or gloom o'er cast, They always must be with us, or we die.