It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

The affirmative of affirmatives... is love.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.