The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.