Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

The enthusiast always finds the master, the masters, whom he seeks. Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be a pupil and to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself.