Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.