Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.