The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.

Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.

The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.