A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

My giant goes with me wherever I go.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.

The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal." "It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals... and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise.