“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.”

“The earth has its music for those who will listen.”

“The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.”

“Consciousness is a born hermit.”

“In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.”

“The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.”

“Wisdom comes by disillusionment.”

“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”

“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”

“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”

“The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.”