The true mind of a nation, at any period, is always best ascertainable by examining that of its greatest men. Ruskin.
The true original ground of all disquiet is within. Thomas à Kempis.
The true philosophical act is annihilation of self; this is the real beginning of all philosophy; all requisites for being a disciple of philosophy point hither. Novalis.
The true poet is even more than a finder or troubadour; he is a seer, a prophet, and an interpreter between the divine and the human. C. Fitzhugh.
The true poet, who is but the inspired thinker, 5 is still an Orpheus whose lyre tames the savage beasts, and evokes the dead rocks to fashion themselves into palaces and stately inhabited cities. Carlyle.
The true poetic soul needs but to be struck, and the sounds it yields will be music. Carlyle.
The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life—life passed through the fire of thought. Emerson.
The true scholar learns from the known to unfold the unknown, and approaches more and more to being a master. Goethe.
The true Shekinah is man. St. Chrysostom.
The true strength of every human soul is to 10 be dependent on as many nobler as it can discern, and to be depended upon by as many inferior as it can reach. Ruskin.