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

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.

There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.