Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.
On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall.
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary to have clearly before you what you require . . . It is certainly tasteless and inconsistent to desire to encompass the world with a garden-wall, but very practicable and reasonable to make a garden . . . into a characteristic whole to the eye, heart, and nderstanding alike.
What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.
From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear.
In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.
You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.
Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.
A healthy nature needs no God or immortality
Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms.
Life did not present its sunny side to thee.
Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth, To the eternal sun, I render back These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.
Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.
The victor is often vanquished by his own success.
Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.
Around, around, Companions all, take your ground, And name the bell with joy profound! CONCORDIA is the word we've found Most meet to express the harmonious sound, That calls to those in friendship bound.
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.
Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.
Stern is the visage of necessity.
He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.
There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.
A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.
Ah, to that far distant strand Bridge there was not to convey, Not a bark was near at hand, Yet true love soon found the way.
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