There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

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.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.