In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.

Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.

Habit is the deepest law of human nature