When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Our molting season, like that of the fouls, must be a crisis in our lives.

To one who habitually endeavors to contemplate the true state of things, the political state can hardly be said to have any existence whatever. It is unreal, incredible, and insignificant to him, and for him to endeavor to extract the truth from such lean material is like making sugar from linen rags, when sugar-cane may be had.

I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.