Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to seserve that you should.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.

This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.