An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

Necessity does everything well.

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.