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

The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.