Science does not know its debt to imagination..

The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God. Why run after a ghost or a dream? The voice of div….

But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me….

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness..

Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism..

I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after….

The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a fa….

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope..

All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effo….

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful..

He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time..

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports..

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams..

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers..

There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies ….

Let us leave hurry to slaves..

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love..

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection..

Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct..

Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanit….