Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

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.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.