I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.
To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
Beware of any profession for which you must buy new clothes.
What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,--for if men read aright, methinks they would never read anything but poems. No history nor philosophy can supply their place.
The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must bestripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation.