The enthusiast always finds the master, the masters, whom he seeks. Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be a pupil and to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself.

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionaliti es or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

Power is in nature the essential measure of right.