The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.

Self trust is the essence of heroism.

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.