1. ”A home is no home unless it contains food and the fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get in one way, they must in another, or perish.”
2. "Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved."
3. "It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods."
4. “It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal.”
5. “Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.”
6. "Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live."
7. “Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice.”
8. "Nature provides exceptions to every rule."
9. “Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.”
10. "There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant. There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood."
11. "Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold."
12. "Wine is earth's answer to the sun."
