Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.