We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

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.

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

God hides things by putting them near us.

We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.