Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse.

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

Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

God hid the whole world in thy heart.

The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself in images. A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual processes, will find that always a material image, more or less luminous, arises in his mind, contemporaneous with every thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought.... This imagery is spontaneous. It is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind. It is proper creation.