Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.