The soul's joy lies in doing.

Fear not for the future, 

weep not for the past.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

A man, 

to be greatly good, 

must imagine intensely and comprehensively; 

he must put himself in the place of another 

and of many others; 

the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

Reason respects the differences, 

and imagination the similitudes of things.

Man has no right to kill his brother. 

It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: 

he only adds the infamy of servitude 

to the crime of murder.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, 

nor obeys.

In a drama of the highest order 

there is little food for censure or hatred; 

it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

The more we study 

the more we discover our ignorance.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, 

and makes familiar objects be 

as if they were not familiar.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,

Stains the white radiance of Eternity.