The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers but they rise behind her steps, not before them

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one

The training which makes men happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin

Poetry is the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes

Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas