The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

New arts destroy the old.

All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth. The condition of our incarnation in a private self, seems to be, a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law, to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of the universal being.

To be great, you must be misunderstood

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.