The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.

The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.