It is the poet's function to keep before the minds of the people not only the underlying truths and beauties of all Nature, but the high and pure ideal of humanity which all should strive to attain. C. Fitzhugh.
It is the possession of a great heart or a great head, and not the mere fame of it, which is of worth and conducive to happiness. Schopenhauer.
It is the power of thought which gives man the mastery over Nature, the thoughts go forth into the world. Hans Andersen.
It is the privilege of every human work which 40 is well done, to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. Emerson.
It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows common-place, as to the rest of us. Lowell.
It is the property of every hero to come back to reality; to stand upon things, not shows of things. Carlyle.
It is the secret of the world that all things subsist, and do not die, but only retire a little from sight, and afterwards return again. Emerson.
It is the setting up of a claim to happiness that ruins everything in the world. Merck to Goethe.
It is the strange fate of man that even in the 45 greatest evils the fear of worse continues to haunt him. Goethe.
It is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened. Sir P. Sidney.