No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.
He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.
Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.
The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.