Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.

Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.