For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.