Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office. They believe that we communicate without speech, and above speech, and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance; for the influence of action is not to be measured by miles.

A man is known by the books he reads.