He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.