To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.