I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Under every deep a lower deep opens.

Only to youth will spring be spring.

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.