Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

Skepticism is slow suicide.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.