Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.
Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.