Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.

I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.