Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically. He should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation, which his daily associates draw him to, else he is shorn of his best beams, and will be an orphan in the merriest club.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.

Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.