All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.

You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.