What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?

Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

All high beauty has a moral element in it.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.