The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.

Darwin remarks that we are less dazzled by the light at waking, if we have been dreaming of visible objects. Happy are those who have here dreamt of a higher vision! They will the sooner be able to endure the glories of the world to come.

There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.