No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

I want to meet my God awake.

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.