Nature is the symbol of Spirit.

I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.

Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.