Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.

O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.

The end of man is action.

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

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.