Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man's will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall no longer be deterredby such abstractions as time and space, height and depth, weight and hardness, but shall indeed be the lord of creation.

Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.