All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.
No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.
The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.
Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.