But it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself. Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed,through which the creator passes.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.