If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers he will be confused and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

He who can be and therefore is another's and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend but not to have is a slave by nature.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others and is of the utmost consequence.