Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.