There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
Beware of what you want-for you will get it.
Only poetry inspires poetry.
There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
The house praises the carpenter.
God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
It is one soul which animates all men.
Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?
You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself.
Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.
When there is no vision, people perish.
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.
Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.