Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought.

Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.

We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

Every wall is a door.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.