“The poetry of earth is never dead.”
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of Imagination.”
“O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts!”
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.”
“The self is a relation that relates itself to itself.”
“Faith is the highest passion in a human being.”
“Boredom is the root of all evil.”
“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.”
“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
“Freedom is the only original right belonging to every man by virtue of his humanity.”
“He who wills the end, wills the means thereto.”
“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds to the understanding, and ends with reason.”
“Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another.”