The health of the eye demands a horizon.

Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

Be brave enough to do the loving thing.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.