Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.

From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider.

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.