Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.

The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.