For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.