To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.

The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It only assigns their due rank respectively to Action and Contemplation, or rather does full justice to the latter. Western philosophers have not conceived of the significance of Contemplation in their sense.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.

Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.