Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.