there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.

Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'