Beauty and Style

I Have a test on these quotes tomorrow and I don’t really understand them. Could you please tell me what these quotes or saying. You dont have to do all of them just however many you want.
Thankyou SO much!

1) “But every night come out these envoys of beauty and light the universe with their admonishing smiles.”
2) “If the stars should appear one night in a thousand, how would men believe and adore…”
3)“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit”
4)“I am a transparent eyeball…The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me.”
5)“Imitation is suicide.”
6)“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
7)“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.”
8)“Trust thyself.”
9)“These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.”
10) “to be great is to be misunderstood”
11)“Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity.”
12)“Whose would be a man must be a nonconformist.”