Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it is the still consecrated spirit of hope, the prophecy of happy days yet to come; the endless variety of nature, with presentiments of eternal flowers which never shall fade, and sympathy with the blessedness of the ever-developing world.

The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.