Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

A good deal of our politics is physiological.

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.