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

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.