They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.

Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.

Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.