The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

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.

No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.