As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.

Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass anyman's faith in the loftiness of his destiny. Things are to be learned which it will be worth the while to learn.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.

The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.